Tulasi Gowda, a 72-year-old woman from Karnataka, was conferred the Padma Shri on November 8 for her contribution to environmental protection. She received India’s fourth-highest civilian award from President Ram Nath Kovind barefoot and dressed in traditional attire. The ceremony was held in New Delhi. President Kovind presents Padma Shri to Smt Tulsi Gowda for …

India recorded 3,54,796 cases of road accidents during 2020 in which 1,33,201 people lost their lives and 3,35,201 were injured, according to the annual report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) showed.  The NCRB data showed that over 60 per cent of road accidents were caused due to overspeeding, accounting for 75,333 deaths and 2,09,736 were injured. In 2020, …

Do progressive and inclusive ideas irk Indians more than anyone else in the world? People may compare the situations with other societies as well, but, for a country that boasts of a tolerant history, the recent reactions to some festive ads is not a good sign.  Dabur, one of the largest FMCG companies in India, submitted to bullying after its …

Pune Police has issued a lookout notice for Kiran Gosavi, who was seen in a viral selfie with Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan at Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) office. City police commissioner Amitabh Gupta said that the lookout notice was issued on Wednesday and bars him from going outside the country. ANI Police said that Gosavi is …

In a bid to curb air pollution, the Gautam Buddh Nagar administration has asked the district police to impound diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years in compliance with a Supreme Court order.  According to the ‘winter action plan’ issued by the Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration, police have been asked to ensure that …

A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, who is facing a forgery case in Pune is now at the center of the cruise party drug burst case. The role of a self-styled detective in Malaysia is also being questioned. BJP’s Manish Bhanushai, who was seen was seen dragging out Arbaz Merchant out of the International Cruise Terminal late on Saturday, later …

Navjot Singh Sudhu quit today as Punjab Congress president, barely three months after he was elevated to the post despite then chief minister Amarinder Singh’s opposition.  Soon after Sidhu’s resignation, Captain  Amarinder Singh, who earlier resigned as Punjab Chief Minister making way for Charanjit Singh Channi as his replacement, took a jibe at Sidhu. I told you so…he is not …

“When someone hears ‘Dantewada’, they immediately think of a dangerous, naxal-maoist hotbed area. I want to change this perception about the city,” says a determined Sourabh Kashyap. Twenty-seven-year-old Kashyap is a man on a mission. He is committed to changing the image of Dantewada in Chhattisgarh, infamous for decades of naxal activities, loss of life, and underdevelopment. Kashyap dons many …

Indian sportswomen are making history at the Tokyo Olympics. Out of the four Olympic medals that Indian athletes have won at the Olympics, three are from the women. While on the one hand, the country is basking in their success back home, on the another, people are protesting over the alleged grotesque rape and murder of a nine-year-old Dalit girl …

A recent study on the spread of COVID-19 has found that tears of COVID positive patients could be a potential source of spreading the coronavirus infection. However, respiratory droplets remain the primary source of coronavirus infection. The Government Medical College in Amritsar has published a study on the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in tears of positive patients with and without ‘ocular …